Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has become the first engineering college in India to start a text and audio service related to Hindu sacred texts. The services are being offered on the official portal of the premier college which displays the link www.gitasupersite.iitk.ac.in.

As many as 171 members contributed to the corpus, which will be used towards research centres, campus infrastructure, faculty and student development, chair professorship, innovation and entrepreneurship.

We have competitive advantage over China, where wages have risen and the country is getting less competitive in production, says Infrastructure and industrial development commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey.